I arrived in Holten, Netherlands after 30 hours of traveling. I only managed to get about 3 hours of sleep on the flights. We stayed in 3 little double story houses in a very bushy area. I took a easy run to wake the legs up for Saturday’s racing. On race day I was feeling
With this update I can happily say that I have been given the opportunity to tour Europe next month with the U23 and Junior squads for SA. I will be racing in the 2012 Holten ITU Triathlon Premium European Cup on the 7th July with a very competitive field and on the 14th July I
During the last two weeks before the African Championships in Le Morne – Mauritius, the ‘unknown injury’ in my legs (which doctors think might be related to my back and pinching nerves) was much better and I decided that I would compete in the race. I struggled again on the Tuesday & Wednesday leading up
Our trip to PE started by waking up at 3.30 on Friday morning and started the long drive. After 14 hours we arrived and I had a quick swim to loosen up a little and a nice pizza to settle the tummy for bed. Saturday was the usual pre-race warm ups and race briefing. Sunday
After a hard week of training I wanted to use the Midlands Ultra Sprint event as a quality training session. My family, my girlfriend and I arrived at Midmar early Sunday morning with decent weather, not so hot and quite windy. We were under way and immediately I had a gap over the rest of